04/18/2012

Armed cab drivers

Should cab drivers be armed? A group is proposing livery cab drivers be armed with licensed handguns to protect against irate passengers. Eyewitness News wants to know what you think. Post your comments (below) and they could appear on Eyewitness News First at 4 p.m.

Comments

I don't think they should be armed because that would just cause more trouble. Also some cabs drivers need a job that doesn't take much education, but if there were guns used by cab drivers as protection they would need to be much more educated.

Absolutely not! Let them spend the money to put in bullet proof partitions. It’s a business expense that they can write-off on their taxes – oh yeah, that assumes they declare their income. Bloomberg should make it a law that every commercially used vehicle has to have a bullet proof partition, or be fine $100 per day.